Garment



Sept. 10, 1935. B N ETAL 2,013,929

GARMENT Filed NOV. 6, 1933 1 INVENTOR." 3W 1 @755;

Q BY ATTORNEYS.

Patented Sept. 10, 1935 PATENT .QFFICE .and Nat RothmarnSan Francisco,Calif.;..said Casper and said Rothman-as'signors v-.to.said

Rubin Application November 6, 1933,: SerialgNo.:-696;748

1 Claim.

The invention relates to garments and particularly to trousers, and moreparticularly to the waist portion of a trousers.

An object of the invention is to provide a waist portion for trousersand the like having an improved means whereby the trousers can beeasily, quickly and conveniently adjusted to changes in the size of amans waist without cutting or sewing or without causing pleats, wrinklesor other disfiguration in any part of the garment and without thenecessity of using a belt, suspenders or other means by which thegarment is held snugly against the wearer.

A further object of the invention is to provide a garment of this typehaving an adjustable waistband construction so that the dealers inapparel of this type can readily fit the garment to customers ofrelatively large or relatively small waists so as to obviate thenecessity of the dealer carrying a large stock of garments of this typeor being put to the expense of having a tailor adjust the waistband.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists of thefeatures of construction,

combination and. arrangement of parts, hereinafter fully described andclaimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawing in which:-

Fig. I is a partial view of a pair of trousers showing the waist portionembodying my invention in open position.

Fig. II is a front elevation showing the waist portion of the garmentadjusted to fit a relatively small waist.

85 Fig. III is a similar view to Fig. II and shows the waistbandadjusted to fit a relatively large waist.

Fig. IV is a section of the waist portion taken on line 44 of Fig. II.

40 Referring to the drawing, A and A designate fasteners secured to thewaistband adjacent the sides or hip portions thereof one being placed oneach side. No claim is made to the specific type of fastener other thanthat the fastener must 45 be of the easily adjustable type and any formof fastener may be used. Substantially half-way between each fastenerand the fly portion of the garment are provided slits or openings B andB in the waistband, the function of which will be 50 explainedhereafter. Another opening or slit D is provided in the waistbandadjacent the fly and this opening or slit is preferably positionedadjacent that portion of the waistband :c that is covered or overlappedby that portion of the waist- 55 band 1 on the other side of the fly,when the fly is closed. To each of the ends of the waistband at the flyand forming an extension thereof are secured relatively narrow straps Cand C which are adapted to pass through the slits or openings D, B and Band be adjustably secured to the 5 fasteners A and A. Strap C passesunder the waistband, that is between the waistband and the body of thewearer until it reaches slit B, Where the strap C passes through theslit to the outside of the waistband and continues along the 10 outsideof the band until it is engaged by the fastener A. Strap 0' passes overor outside the waistband, through the slit D and under or on the insideof the waistband until it reaches the slit B through which the strap Cpasses to be en- 15 gaged with the fastener A. This arrangement isclearly disclosed in the cross sectional view Fig. IV.

It is to be noted that the trousers do not have the usual fasteningmeans. at the upper portions 20 of the fly .z' and y. In fact only thelowermost buttons E, E and E" of the usual fly construction areprovided. The conventional fourth button and the usual waistbandfastening means are substituted by the straps and fasteners and the 25arrangement of slits or openings. This is a very important feature as itcan be readily seen that the provision of such fasteners together withthe adjusting feature would cause pleats, wrinkles or otherdisfigurements in or adjacent to the waist 30 portion of the garmentwhen the waist portion of the garment is made smaller.

With this construction of adjustable Waistband in combination with thefly construction, any adjustment of the waist portion can be had withoutdistortion of the fly or wrinkling below or upon the waistband andconsequently there is no bulging in the front and the garment fitssnugly, comfortably and smoothly. This is due to the fact that theadjustment begins at the top button E of the fly and extends upwardly tothe top of the trousers. The fly portion a: and y above the button E canextend at an angle to the lower portion of the fly as clearly shown inFigs. II and III. The adjustment of the straps with relation tothefasteners gives a relatively small waist in Fig. II and a relativelylarge waist in Fig. III. The provision of the slit D in the positionindicated is of importance as this slit in conjunction with the strap Csupports that portion of the fly a: above the button E in the absence ofthe usual fasteners and prevents that portion of the garment fromsagging down and giving an unsightly appearance.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with theaccompanying drawing, it will be seen that the invention provides anadjustable waist band which is simple in construction, affords theadvantages set forth, and by means of which the Waistband and upperportion of the fly can be easily adjusted.

Having thus described our invention, we claim:--

In a garment of the character described having a fly opening and awaistband intersected by 4 said fly opening having the ends thereofdisposed inoverlapping relation, fastening means for closing the lowerportion of the fly opening, the underlapping side of said waistbandhaving two circumferentially spaced slits formed there in, one of saidslits being near the edge of the fly opening, the overlapping side ofsaid waistband having a slit formed therein spaced from said flyopening, a strap secured to and extending from each end of saidwaistband, the strap on the underlapping end being adapted to passoutwardly through said slit in the overlapping side and the strap on theoverlapping end being adapted to pass inwardly through the slit near theedge of the fly opening and thence outwardly through the slit spacedtherefrom in the underlapping side, and fastening means on the sides ofthe garment for securing the ends of said straps, whereby threading saidstraps through their respective slits and securing the ends of.

thesame will result in adjusting the waistband to the size of thewearer, the proximity of the slit in the underlapping side to the edgeof the fly opening efiectively holding the overlapping edges againstvertical shifting movement.

' HARRY RUBIN.

ABRAHAM CASPER. NAT ROTI-LMAN.

